Co-Chairman Kim Ki-nam, President of the National Academy of Engineering
On the 8th, at the Korea Technology Center's main conference room in Yeoksam-dong, Seoul, attendees including Ahn Deok-geun, Minister of Trade, Industry and Energy, and Kim Ki-nam, President of the National Academy of Engineering, along with domestic AI experts, took a commemorative photo at the launch ceremony of the 'AI Industry Policy Committee.' Photo by Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy
On the 8th, the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy announced that it held the launch ceremony of the "New Industrial Policy in the Era of Artificial Intelligence (AI)" committee, attended by Minister Andeokgeun, Kim Ginam, Chairman of the National Academy of Engineering, and AI experts from domestic companies, academia, and related organizations.
The Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy decided to promote a new industrial policy for the AI era by forming the "AI Industrial Policy Committee," which forecasts changes in our industry in the era when AI becomes widespread and derives policy tasks for industrial innovation utilizing AI.
The AI Industrial Policy Committee consists of about 200 experts from industry, academia, and research institutes in the domestic AI field and will participate in work for six months. Minister Andeokgeun and Chairman Kim will serve as co-chairs. The committee will be led by private experts who will form working groups and present future AI technologies, future industrial changes, standards, and policy recommendations.
Kim Ki-nam, President of the National Academy of Engineering of Korea, is delivering a New Year's address at the National Academy of Engineering of Korea New Year's Ceremony held at the Shilla Hotel in Jung-gu, Seoul, on January 29, 2024. [Photo by Yonhap News]
Separately, through the AI Industrial Policy Committee, the Ministry plans to announce monthly strategies for six major sectors: autonomous manufacturing, design, research and development (R&D), distribution, energy, and AI semiconductors. The Ministry intends to reflect policy recommendations and legal and institutional improvement tasks discovered by sector-specific working groups to promote the National Assembly’s proposal of a tentative "Artificial Intelligence Industry Utilization Promotion Act" in the second half of this year.
At the launch ceremony, the Ministry announced the first task in the six major sectors, the "AI Autonomous Manufacturing Strategy 1.0." AI autonomous manufacturing refers to a future manufacturing environment that realizes advanced and autonomous production by integrating robots and equipment into manufacturing processes based on AI. The Ministry’s AI Autonomous Manufacturing Strategy 1.0 is centered on three strategies: spreading AI autonomous manufacturing adoption, securing core capabilities for AI autonomous manufacturing, and promoting the ecosystem, with plans to invest more than 100 billion KRW in the budget this year alone.
An official from the Ministry stated, "Through this measure, we aim to raise the current AI autonomous manufacturing diffusion rate of about 9% to over 30% by 2030 and improve manufacturing productivity by more than 20%."
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